On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. > > Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or > > in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are > > quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using "alien" which > > leads me to problem number 2 ... > > There are plenty of ebuilds for binary only packages in the tree. The above > link helps you to unpack the binary files to $WORKDIR. After that you can use > the install functions [1] (or cp or whatever) in src_install() to install > to the image ($D). And perhaps you need and env.d file or whatever else may be > missing (for additions to *PATH variables). > > When all of that is done you can emerge it. And no, a .deb isn't any better. > > [1] > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html >
One example from the tree is media-video/realplayer. It is a package that installs a binary package from an rpm. Regards, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
